United Soccer Leagues, Division 1 Seattle Sounders vs. Portland Timbers Friday 8 July 2005 Starfire Sports Complex, Tukwila, Washington, USA From Fox Soccer Channel (English commentary) running time: two hours file size: 698mb resolution: 192x144 codec: XviD frame rate: 29 frames/second data rate: 99kbps video sample size: 12 bit audio bit rate: 134kbps audio format: MPEG Layer-3 The screen size is a bit small, but life's tough. First USL video cap of the 2005 season.
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The copy is small, but the clarity is better than expected. The sound lapse is alright once the action starts. Great match to capture.
Hey all - I was asked to remove the link, which I did. It is copyrighted material, and thus without the permission of FSC, should not be posted on here. Sorry.
damn laws about free advertisement, let's see some of us are outside the U.S. and can't watch the match, but we can watch it on a torrent which has advertisements and might make me support a league and franchise, and possibly get a sattalite that picks up this channal when I get back to the motherland, so I can actually watch it live. hmmmm No problem, don't mind me, just think that this copyright thing has gotten out of hand, you gotta do what you gotta do to keep your board safe from jerks. Sorry about the cynisysm and spelling issues, I'm surrounded by the U.S. military and the rules and ideas they get make me an even bigger cynic and smartass than normal. --CHEERS
Who asked that the link be removed? It's been posted on a bunch of other boards and so far nobody's asked that the link be removed from those boards. It's quite stupid really. The USL buys the time to get the games aired on FSW solely to promote the league. So how does it hurt them that it's been captured and people are SHARING it? More promotion for the league and it doesn't hurt FSW at all.
Well not quite free. The league did pay to air the games on FSW so there was the initial investment. However sharing these games at least lets the majority of fans of the league that don't get FSW to have the chance to watch the games.
True, there were the initial cost. I just don't see the harm in letting fans watch the game. I guess they want to protect the product (ie copyright). I know I don't have access to FSW and would love a chance to see a few USL 1 games.
Thats the thing, there's no harm. The MLS allows plenty of their games to be watched for free on their site, they understand publicity. You can even go and watch archived games. Sharing the game via internet download is no more harmfull than trading tapes of the games which people have been doing for decades. USL backwards thinking at it's best. Maybe they want to pay FSW good money to air their games but have nobody watch them!